Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

by J.K. Rowling

As they reached it, Hermione came out, but she wasn’t carrying an owl. Her arms were clamped tightly around the enormous ginger cat. “You bought that monster?” said Ron, his mouth hanging open. “He’s gorgeous, isn’t he?” said Hermione, glowing. That was a matter of opinion,

No shot she bought the cat that attacked Scabbers

There were seven people on a Quidditch team: three Chasers, whose job it was to score goals by putting the Quaffle (a red, soccer-sized ball) through one of the fifty-foot-high hoops at each end of the field; two Beaters, who were equipped with heavy bats to repel the Bludgers (two heavy black balls that zoomed around trying to attack the players); a Keeper, who defended the goalposts, and the Seeker, who had the hardest job of all, that of catching the Golden Snitch, a tiny, winged, walnut-sized ball, whose capture ended the game and earned the Seeker’s team an extra one hundred and fifty points.

Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Did he realize he was facing twelve years in Azkaban, twelve years that would make him unrecognizable?

Twelve years?? That’s it??? He should be in there for life! Well, maybe he was supposed to be but only spent twelve years in there until he escaped

Your mum and dad wouldn’t want you to get hurt, would they? They’d never want you to go looking for Black!” “I’ll never know what they’d have wanted, because thanks to Black, I’ve never spoken to them,” said Harry shortly.

Oop. He’s not wrong though

Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!”

Professor Trelawney was now teaching them palmistry, and she lost no time in informing Harry that he had the shortest life line she had ever seen.

Damn. Miss girl would cause me anxiety

“The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon — hope, happiness, the desire to survive — but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the dementors can’t hurt it.

“You heard James?” said Lupin in a strange voice. “Yeah . . .” Face dry, Harry looked up. “Why — you didn’t know my dad, did you?”

I actually like Lupin, but I have a feeling he might be Black in disguise

Hermione irritated the rest by fussing about how her tortoise had looked more like a turtle, which was the least of everyone else’s worries.

I love Hermione, although I know good and well she’d annoy me with how she is with her studies, but I’m sometimes anal about it too, so I can’t judge

Hermione did everything perfectly until she reached the trunk with the boggart in it. After about a minute inside it, she burst out again, screaming. “Hermione!” said Lupin, startled. “What’s the matter?” “P-P-Professor McGonagall!” Hermione gasped, pointing into the trunk. “Sh-she said I’d failed everything!”

That’s her worst fear? I can’t blame you, girl

I’m your godfather.” “Yeah, I knew that,” said Harry. “Well . . . your parents appointed me your guardian,” said Sirius stiffly. “If anything happened to them . . .” Harry waited. Did Sirius mean what he thought he meant? “I’ll understand, of course, if you want to stay with your aunt and uncle,” said Sirius. “But . . . well . . . think about it. Once my name’s cleared . . . if you wanted a . . . a different home . . .” Some sort of explosion took place in the pit of Harry’s stomach. “What — live with you?” he said, accidentally cracking his head on a bit of rock protruding from the ceiling. “Leave the Dursleys?” “Of course, I thought you wouldn’t want to,” said Sirius quickly. “I understand, I just thought I’d —” “Are you insane?” said Harry, his voice easily as croaky as Sirius’s. “Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?” Sirius turned right around to look at him; Snape’s head was scraping the ceiling but Sirius didn’t seem to care. “You want to?” he said. “You mean it?” “Yeah, I mean it!” said Harry. Sirius’s gaunt face broke into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The

Wow, I wasn’t expecting this